Ron Paul Watch, with Ron Paul, Presidential Candidate: Day Three

A continuing series in which we take one for the team: here we are, the mainstream media, lavishing attention upon Ron Paul.

Back on day one of The Watch, we reported on Ron Paul’s comments about the Federal Emergency Management Agency, specifically his desire for its abolition. “It’s a system of bureaucratic centralized economic planning that is a policy that is deeply flawed,” the Texas congressman told the gang at Fox News. “They contribute to deficit financing and, quite frankly, they don’t have a penny in the bank.”

This morning Connecticut governor Dan Malloy, whose state has been plagued by power outages and flooding due to Hurricane Irene, appeared on Good Morning Americato defend FEMA and denounce Paul. “I think he’s an idiot," Malloy said. “We are spending $900 million a week in wars and he is arguing about whether we should spend some amount of money? FEMA now has currently $900 million budget available to it. This is a ridiculous conversation. I really don’t understand what he is talking about and I’m not sure he does."

He continued: “For someone in Texas to be talking about FEMA perhaps being defunded really does rise to idiocy and hypocrisy. This is pure politics playing out across individuals’ misery.”

In defense of Ron Paul: VF Daily was thrilled to receive our very first e-mail from the Paul campaign just two days after requesting to be added to the press listserv! The congressman obviously hired a fine public-relations representative and in this respect is not an idiot. According to the communiqué, “Dr. Paul will host an economics-themed town hall meeting on September 1st at New England College, before touring local businesses the following day”—those local businesses that haven’t been destroyed in a flood and are awaiting federal assistance, that is.